{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.wm-org-015","code":"wm-org-015-supplier-partner-relationship","url":"https://ver.cy/models/wm-org-015-supplier-partner-relationship/","name":"Supplier / Partner Relationship","alternateNames":[],"kind":"world-model","status":"published","version":"0.3.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"World Models","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"relationship","plane":"","domain":["SOC.ORG.SUP"],"industry":["Cross-industry"],"navPath":"NAV.SOC.ORG.SUP","tags":["supplier","partner","relationship","soc.org.sup"],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Relationship record tying an owner to a counterparty and supplied capability; not party identity, purchase transaction or legal partnership determination. Preserve role, approval and source assessment scope.","purpose":"Describe qualification, risk and commercial status of a buyer- or collaboration-scoped supplier/partner relationship.","scope":{"in":["Buyer/collaboration scope, participant roles and supplied capabilities","Qualification evidence, attributed approval, commercial references and responsibilities","Risk/performance context, change/exit continuity and governed exchange"],"out":["Party, bank account and credential master data","Execution of onboarding, payments, purchasing, outreach or supplier exclusion","Universal approval states, legal control, sanctions adjudication or industry-wide risk scoring"],"boundaries":[{"neighbor":"Organization master","distinction":"Multiple scoped supplier roles can reference one legal party; never remaster it here."},{"neighbor":"Procurement and contracts","distinction":"Award suppliers, agreements and transaction authority are referenced, not replaced by generic approved status."},{"neighbor":"Financial account and payee","distinction":"Seller, accounting supplier and payee can differ; relationship editing must not redirect funds."},{"neighbor":"Inter-organizational partnership","distinction":"Role label and supply dependency do not establish legal control or a universal legal partnership."}]},"distinguishingFeatures":["A buyer-scoped relationship with a counterparty, not the supplier's identity or bank details.","Separates registration, qualification and approval for transactions.","Differs from a purchase order or contract, which it references for commercial terms.","Differs from a legal partnership: partner here describes a business role, not a legal form."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"supplier-counterparty-role-and-supply-scope","name":"Counterparty role and supply scope","description":"Supplier/partner counterparty role and supply scope.","layers":[{"id":"supplier-identity","name":"Buyer-scoped relationship identity","description":"Scoped supplier/partner buyer-scoped relationship identity assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-identity-record","name":"Buyer-scoped relationship identity record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner buyer-scoped relationship identity assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which master-qualified relationship identifier links which buyer or collaboration owner to which counterparty?","id":"supplier-identity-q01","kind":"identity"},{"text":"Which scheme distinguishes supplier, subcontractor, reseller or alliance partner from the underlying party?","id":"supplier-identity-q02","kind":"classification"},{"text":"Which aliases refer to this relationship without collapsing different buyers, sites or commercial scopes?","id":"supplier-identity-q03","kind":"evidence"}]}]},{"id":"supplier-scope","name":"Supplied capabilities and participation","description":"Scoped supplier/partner supplied capabilities and participation assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-scope-record","name":"Supplied capabilities and participation record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner supplied capabilities and participation assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which goods, services or collaboration contributions are within the declared relationship scope?","id":"supplier-scope-q01","kind":"composition"},{"text":"Which locations, organizational units and delivery roles are covered by that scope?","id":"supplier-scope-q02","kind":"spatial"},{"text":"Which consortium, prime or sub-tier participant references preserve responsibility without inferring legal control?","id":"supplier-scope-q03","kind":"relationship"}]}]}]},{"id":"supplier-qualification-and-authorization","name":"Qualification and authorization","description":"Supplier/partner qualification and authorization.","layers":[{"id":"supplier-qualification","name":"Qualification evidence and freshness","description":"Scoped supplier/partner qualification evidence and freshness assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-qualification-record","name":"Qualification evidence and freshness record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner qualification evidence and freshness assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which qualification criteria and scheme version apply to the relevant category and buying scope?","id":"supplier-qualification-q01","kind":"requirement"},{"text":"Which claims are supplier-declared versus independently assessed, with which supporting references?","id":"supplier-qualification-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"When do qualifications expire or require review and which missing evidence remains unknown?","id":"supplier-qualification-q03","kind":"temporal"}]}]},{"id":"supplier-authorization","name":"Registration and approved-use boundaries","description":"Scoped supplier/partner registration and approved-use boundaries assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-authorization-record","name":"Registration and approved-use boundaries record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner registration and approved-use boundaries assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which source status distinguishes registration, qualification and authorization for specified commercial uses?","id":"supplier-authorization-q01","kind":"state"},{"text":"Who approved which scope under which policy and with which limitations or exceptions?","id":"supplier-authorization-q02","kind":"authority"},{"text":"Which separate transaction authority remains necessary despite an approved supplier status?","id":"supplier-authorization-q03","kind":"constraint"}]}]}]},{"id":"supplier-commercial-bindings-and-accountability","name":"Commercial bindings and accountability","description":"Supplier/partner commercial bindings and accountability.","layers":[{"id":"supplier-commercial","name":"Agreement and procurement references","description":"Scoped supplier/partner agreement and procurement references assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-commercial-record","name":"Agreement and procurement references record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner agreement and procurement references assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which agreements, awards or purchase relationships provide the commercial basis without duplicating their terms?","id":"supplier-commercial-q01","kind":"relationship"},{"text":"Which party is seller, invoice issuer, payee or service performer in each referenced context?","id":"supplier-commercial-q02","kind":"classification"},{"text":"Which contractual limits remain authoritative elsewhere when a relationship record changes?","id":"supplier-commercial-q03","kind":"constraint"}]}]},{"id":"supplier-stewardship","name":"Relationship stewardship and interfaces","description":"Scoped supplier/partner relationship stewardship and interfaces assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-stewardship-record","name":"Relationship stewardship and interfaces record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner relationship stewardship and interfaces assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which accountable owner, category manager and partner representatives steward the relationship?","id":"supplier-stewardship-q01","kind":"ownership"},{"text":"Which contact and exchange interfaces have scoped delegated authority rather than inferred permissions?","id":"supplier-stewardship-q02","kind":"authority"},{"text":"Which handover or escalation process owns unresolved issues and disputed responsibility?","id":"supplier-stewardship-q03","kind":"process"}]}]}]},{"id":"supplier-risk-and-performance-evidence","name":"Risk and performance evidence","description":"Supplier/partner risk and performance evidence.","layers":[{"id":"supplier-risk","name":"Attributed supplier-risk assessments","description":"Scoped supplier/partner attributed supplier-risk assessments assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-risk-record","name":"Attributed supplier-risk assessments record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner attributed supplier-risk assessments assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which assessed risks have a named method, evidence, time and uncertainty for the relevant supply scope?","id":"supplier-risk-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which critical dependencies, concentration or sub-tier visibility gaps affect this assessment?","id":"supplier-risk-q02","kind":"relationship"},{"text":"Which mitigations and review decisions are merely referenced rather than automated supplier exclusion?","id":"supplier-risk-q03","kind":"decision"}]}]},{"id":"supplier-performance","name":"Performance and issue context","description":"Scoped supplier/partner performance and issue context assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-performance-record","name":"Performance and issue context record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner performance and issue context assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which delivery, quality or service observations support the relationship assessment without copying transaction payloads?","id":"supplier-performance-q01","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"Which metric definition, denominator, period and source make performance comparisons meaningful?","id":"supplier-performance-q02","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Which incidents, corrective actions or disputed observations need follow-up by their authoritative owners?","id":"supplier-performance-q03","kind":"exception"}]}]}]},{"id":"supplier-change-and-continuity","name":"Change and continuity","description":"Supplier/partner change and continuity.","layers":[{"id":"supplier-change","name":"Relationship changes and review triggers","description":"Scoped supplier/partner relationship changes and review triggers assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-change-record","name":"Relationship changes and review triggers record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner relationship changes and review triggers assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which scope, ownership or service changes trigger a relationship review without automatically transferring approval?","id":"supplier-change-q01","kind":"lifecycle"},{"text":"What effective, observed and recorded times qualify each lifecycle change?","id":"supplier-change-q02","kind":"temporal"},{"text":"How are conflicting source statuses and mistaken updates preserved and corrected?","id":"supplier-change-q03","kind":"exception"}]}]},{"id":"supplier-continuity","name":"Suspension, exit and continuity","description":"Scoped supplier/partner suspension, exit and continuity assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-continuity-record","name":"Suspension, exit and continuity record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner suspension, exit and continuity assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which authorized scope is suspended or ended, for what attributed reason and interval?","id":"supplier-continuity-q01","kind":"state"},{"text":"Which outstanding obligations, access-removal and handover tasks remain with contract or operational masters?","id":"supplier-continuity-q02","kind":"process"},{"text":"Which continuity dependencies and reinstatement evidence must be reviewed without silently cancelling contracts?","id":"supplier-continuity-q03","kind":"constraint"}]}]}]},{"id":"supplier-governed-knowledge-exchange","name":"Governed knowledge exchange","description":"Supplier/partner governed knowledge exchange.","layers":[{"id":"supplier-governance","name":"Mastership, disclosure and retention","description":"Scoped supplier/partner mastership, disclosure and retention assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-governance-record","name":"Mastership, disclosure and retention record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner mastership, disclosure and retention assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which systems master identity, qualification, approval and assessment fields and how stale are cached assertions?","id":"supplier-governance-q01","kind":"ownership"},{"text":"Who may read or change each field without obtaining bank details, credentials or unrelated confidential evidence?","id":"supplier-governance-q02","kind":"access"},{"text":"Which correction and retention policies preserve justified lineage while minimizing private supplier data?","id":"supplier-governance-q03","kind":"retention"}]}]},{"id":"supplier-mapping","name":"Mappings and safe agent operations","description":"Scoped supplier/partner mappings and safe agent operations assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","findings":[{"id":"supplier-mapping-record","name":"Mappings and safe agent operations record","description":"Scoped supplier/partner mappings and safe agent operations assertions, with source and authority limits. Record changes do not execute procurement, payments or exclusion.","questions":[{"text":"Which pinned OCDS, UBL or PartyRole mapping preserves role, buyer scope and source status meaning?","id":"supplier-mapping-q01","kind":"interoperability"},{"text":"Which information or authority distinctions are lost during import or export and require a warning or refusal?","id":"supplier-mapping-q02","kind":"quality"},{"text":"Which negative fixtures prevent record maintenance from causing payment, outreach, exclusion or purchase commitments?","id":"supplier-mapping-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Resolve a supplier relationship within one buyer scope.","Record qualification evidence and its expiry.","Summarize risk and performance evidence with sources.","Flag lapsed certificates or overdue reviews."],"mustNot":["Change payee bank details through the relationship record.","Exclude a supplier automatically from risk scores.","Treat registration as approval to buy.","Adjudicate sanctions matches.","Contact suppliers on behalf of the buyer without authority."],"requiresHuman":["Approving or suspending a supplier.","Deciding on sanctions or due diligence findings.","Ending a supplier relationship."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Risk labels can unfairly exclude small or minority-owned suppliers.","Supplier due diligence covers labour and environmental impacts in the supply chain.","Qualification evidence may contain personal data of supplier staff."],"affectedParties":["Supplier firms and their workers","Buying organization and its customers","Communities affected by supply chain practices"]},"owners":{"steward":"Declare relationship owner, steward and delegated reviewers.","roles":[{"name":"Dimension owner","responsibilities":["Sets purpose and delegation."]},{"name":"Relationship steward","responsibilities":["Maintains scope, mastership and evidence review."]},{"name":"Contributor","responsibilities":["Records authorized minimal supplier claims and references."]},{"name":"Reviewer","responsibilities":["Assesses evidence quality, scope and disputed status."]},{"name":"Custodian","responsibilities":["Enforces disclosure, retention and revision integrity."]}],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"WM-ORG-012","type":"references","note":"Proposed broader inter-organization link; not an approved legal relationship or composition edge."},{"target":"https://standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en/guidance/map/buyers_suppliers/","type":"aligned","note":"Candidate procurement supplier role mapping, not universal approved-vendor semantics."},{"target":"https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.html","type":"aligned","note":"Candidate document role alignment, not full UBL conformance."},{"target":"https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/","type":"aligned","note":"Candidate assessment/revision attribution vocabulary."},{"target":"Organization master","type":"neighbor","note":"Multiple scoped supplier roles can reference one legal party; never remaster it here."},{"target":"Procurement and contracts","type":"neighbor","note":"Award suppliers, agreements and transaction authority are referenced, not replaced by generic approved status."},{"target":"Financial account and payee","type":"neighbor","note":"Seller, accounting supplier and payee can differ; relationship editing must not redirect funds."},{"target":"Inter-organizational partnership","type":"neighbor","note":"Role label and supply dependency do not establish legal control or a universal legal partnership."},{"target":"WM-ORG-012","type":"parent"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Authoritative master-qualified identifier","Governed issuer-qualified URI","Dimension-issued UUID"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["A supplier relationship has buyer scope, a supplier reference, supplied capabilities and a qualification status.","Confused with the supplier organization, a vendor master payment record and a contract."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Resolve scoped relationship: Identify a relationship without merging the party master.","Record qualification evidence: Append an attributed qualification claim or assessment.","Revise attributed authorization: Record a decision made by the appropriate master.","Link commercial masters: Connect typed procurement and role references.","Record change and exit context: Preserve review triggers and continuity responsibilities.","Export permitted projection: Map minimized fields to a declared target profile."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Invoice fraud through changed payee details.","Purchases from unqualified or sanctioned suppliers.","Supply disruption from unnoticed expired qualifications."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Open Contracting Data Standard.","OASIS UBL 2.x party and document roles.","NIST SP 800-161 cyber supply chain risk management.","ISO 44001 collaborative business relationships.","ISO 20400 sustainable procurement.","LEI, ISO 17442, and GS1 GLN for parties."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["NIST C-SCRM, OCDS procurement, UBL document roles and vendor workflows have distinct scopes and are not universal legal requirements."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Buyers and suppliers","url":"https://standard.open-contracting.org/latest/en/guidance/map/buyers_suppliers/","note":"Open Contracting Partnership"},{"title":"Universal Business Language 2.3","url":"https://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/os-UBL-2.3/UBL-2.3.html","note":"OASIS"},{"title":"Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Practices","url":"https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-161r1-upd1.pdf","note":"NIST"},{"title":"Prospective Suppliers","url":"https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/procurement/25c/oaprc/prospective-suppliers.html","note":"Oracle"},{"title":"Party Role Management Conformance Profile","url":"https://tmf-open-api-table-documents.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/OpenApiTable/TMF669_Party_Role/5.0.0/conformance/TMF669_Party_Role_conformance.pdf","note":"TM Forum"},{"title":"PROV-O: The PROV Ontology","url":"https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/","note":"W3C"},{"title":"Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps","url":"https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339","note":"IETF"}],"openQuestions":["Independent review and precise source/license verification.","Executable nested constraints and authority/round-trip tests.","Specialized supplier/alliance profiles and approved typed composition.","Claude and Grok each timed out once; Codex-only draft has no independent external review.","Selected clauses only; full source constraints, mutable release pins and asset-specific license reviews pending.","TMF guide landing page returned 403; inspected conformance PDF is not the full guide. RFC3339 direct HEAD unavailable despite readable web text.","No executable nested schema, procurement/qualification adapter or approval/exit/round-trip fixture delivered.","Industry profiles, non-supply alliance details, approved composition edges and jurisdiction-specific interpretation require later work."],"resources":{"spec":"/models/wm-org-015-supplier-partner-relationship/spec.yaml","agents":"/models/wm-org-015-supplier-partner-relationship/AGENTS.md","source":"https://github.com/ver-cy/world-models/tree/feat/mega-model-registry/research/runs/wm-org-015"},"provenance":{"origin":"world-models research","builtFrom":["models/wm-org-015-supplier-partner-relationship/spec.yaml","ver-cy/world-models/card-supplements/wm-org-015-supplier-partner-relationship.json"],"providers":["Codex"],"researchStatus":"reviewable-draft","generatedAt":"2026-09-09T21:39:03Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"filled","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"filled","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"interaction.properties":"Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.","_supplement":"Sections authored in card supplement 1.0.0 by Claude (Opus 5.5) (2026-10-05, unreviewed). Written from the published specification and established practice in the field; no new sources were read. Unreviewed."},"score":1.0}}